Event for the 72nd anniversary of the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples in Berlin

5/9/17 10:41 AM

An important internationalist event was organized by the European Communist Initiative in Berlin on Sunday 7/5, with as its theme:

«May 9, 72 years after the Great Antifascist Victory of the Peoples: we are inspired and continue the struggle against the distortion of history by the EU-capital. For the overthrow of the rotten capitalist system that creates crises, wars, fascism.”

The event was supported by the Party Organization of the KKE in Germany and Party Organization of the CP of Turkey in Germany.The programme of the event included interventions from the representatives of the CPs that participate in the “Initiative” and a concert with songs of the Red Army and other revolutionary songs.

The following 15 Parties participated in the event: Pole of Communist Revival in France, Communist Revolutionary Party of France, Communist Party of Greece, Workers’ Party of Ireland, Communist Party, Italy, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, Socialist Workers Party of Croatia, Belarusian Communist Party of Workers-Section of the CPSU, Communist Party of Norway, Hungarian Workers’ Party, Communist Party of Poland, Russian Communist Workers’ Party, Communist Party of Sweden, Communist Party of Turkey

A representative of the German CP also attended the event.

The representatives of the parties of the European Communist Initiative w visited and laid wreaths and flowers at the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, where thousands of soldiers of the Red Army who gave their lives in the tough battle to capture Berlin in April and May of 1945 are buried there. The imposing statue of the Soviet Soldier is at the centre of the memorial

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